Find Photos
Searches for the photos in your library that match the given criteria. Allows for sorting, changing the order, and limiting the number passed as a result.
Save this week’s photos
Looks for photos taken in the last week, lets you pick which ones to save, then presents a list of your albums to choose where to save them.
Scripting Actions
Choose from List
Presents a menu of the items passed as input to the action and outputs the user’s selection.
Prompt
The instruction provided when the list is presented.
Select Multiple
When enabled, multiple items may be chosen from the list.
Save to Photo Album
Adds the photos and video passed as input to the specified photo album. This action is required if you want images, photos, or videos in Shortcuts to be saved into the Photos app.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Save%20this%20week%E2%80%99s%20photos
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Save%20this%20week%E2%80%99s%20photos
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Save this week’s photos”
end tell
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Create photo album
Asks you to enter a title, then creates an album in the Photos app.
Open Photos Recents
Opens the “Recents” collection in Photos, which shows photos and videos, plus imported graphics that don’t appear in the main Library view.
Crop the subject out
Removes the background of a photo, cropping the remaining subject to remove blank space.
Share my photos
Prompts you to pick between Recents, Portraits, Selfies, and Panoramas to send via the Share sheet.
Stack vertically
Takes two photos and combines them on top of each other with 150px in between.
Open Favorites in Photos
Opens the collection of photos and videos that you’ve favorited using the heart icon in Photos.
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Generate filing timestamp
Copies the current date and time in a good format for pre-pending to filenames to ensure the list is always ordered well when sorted alphabetically.
Toggle grayscale
Toggles the Color Filters accessibility setting, which can turn your device black or white and remove all color if set to grayscale (among other options).
Chat with GPT-4
Starts a new continuous conversation with ChatGPT-4, starting with a prompt of your own.
Open an app on the Apple TV
Wakes a specified Apple TV, opens an app of your choosing, then shows the digital Remote Control.
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Show my website Flipboard
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